BE LIKE WATER 
A cycle for solo piano

Be Like Water loosely follows the water cycle through its journey, meditating on its role in transferring energy around the world, its multi-faceted beauty, and its increasing volatility.

I began creating these pieces while isolated by the river in Stratford-upon-Avon in Spring 2020, and though the world seemed to have ground to a halt, the water never ceased to shape the days and flow past on its epic journey. This music aims to capture some of that mystery in a musical response to the water cycle.

Track Listing:
1 - Springs 
2 - Nexus
 3 - Falls
 4 - Laps
 5 - White Horses
 6 - Sublimation 
7 - Dust in Clouds 
8 - Towards Earth 
9 - Streams within Streams

Bespoke album artwork by Diana Patient

Streams within Streams

Towards Earth

Dust In Clouds

Sublimation

White Horses

BE LIKE WATER 
A cycle for solo piano

Be Like Water loosely follows the water cycle through its journey, meditating on its role in transferring energy around the world, its multi-faceted beauty, and its increasing volatility.

I began creating these pieces while isolated by the river in Stratford-upon-Avon in Spring 2020, and though the world seemed to have ground to a halt, the water never ceased to shape the days and flow past on its epic journey. This music aims to capture some of that mystery in a musical response to the water cycle.

Track Listing:
1 - Springs 
2 - Nexus
 3 - Falls within Falls
 4 - Purling
 5 - White Horses
 6 - Sublimation 
7 - Dust in Clouds 
8 - Towards Earth 
9 - Streams within Streams

Bespoke album artwork by Diana Patient

Laps

Falls

NEXUS 
from BE LIKE WATER , a cycle for solo piano

Be Like Water loosely follows the water cycle through its journey, meditating on its role in transferring energy around the world, its multi-faceted beauty, and its increasing volatility.  

I began writing this music in the first lockdown of Spring 2020 out of a desire to feel closer to nature.  Though my world seemed to have ground to a halt, I was drawn to a local river which never ceased to shape the days as it flowed past on its epic journey. This music aims to capture some of the mystery of water in a musical response to the water cycle.

Track Listing:
1 - Springs 
2 - Nexus
 3 - Falls
 4 - Shallows
 5 - White Horses
 6 - Sublimation 
7 - Dust in Clouds 
8 - Towards Earth 
9 - Streams within Streams

Bespoke album artwork by Diana Patient

Nexus

Springs

Excerpt from the soundtrack to Nick Partridge's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.  Performed at The Egg Theatre by the Theatre Royal Bath Young Company

OUR TOWN - original soundtrack

A track from the play FOSSILS, by Bucket Club.

Words and music by David Ridley

FOSSILS: Half Way

A setting of James Joyce's poem, 'Sleep Now'.

Sleep Now

Cetacean Song follows the imagined journey of The Last Whale.

The young whale dives down to the SOFAR channel and calls out, before returning to the surface to breach and play in the waves. Diving down again, instead of hearing a reply they hear the reflection of their call, and realise they are alone in the entirety of the ocean.

David.Ridley

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